{"product_id":"the-shelter-and-the-fence-when-982-holocaust-refugees-found-safe-haven-in-america-9780897336277","title":"The Shelter and the Fence: When 982 Holocaust Refugees Found Safe Haven in America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This chapter in World War II history is a well-kept secret. Make this title a first choice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e --\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e STARRED review \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of Holocaust refugees who found shelter in the United States\u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003ewith unique parallels to today's stories of asylum seekers. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In 1944, at the height of World War II, 982 European refugees found a temporary haven at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York. They were men, women, and children who had spent frightening years one step ahead of Nazi pursuers and death. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey spoke nineteen different languages, and, while most of the refugees were Jewish, a number were Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Protestant Christians. From the time they arrived at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter on August 5 they began re-creating their lives and embarked on the road to becoming American citizens. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the history of World War II and the Holocaust, this \"token\" save by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the War Refugee Board was too little and too late for millions. But for those few who reached Oswego it was life changing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Shelter and the Fence\u003c\/i\u003e tells their stories. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorman H. Finkelstein \u003c\/b\u003ewas a retired public-school librarian and a longtime teacher of history at Boston's Hebrew College. He was the author of twenty well-reviewed nonfiction books and the winner of two National Jewish Book Awards and the Golden Kite Honor Book Award for Nonfiction.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Chicago Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51589681217810,"sku":"9780897336277","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_08214494-486e-4fb3-94f7-5037f447aba0.jpg?v=1765972482","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-shelter-and-the-fence-when-982-holocaust-refugees-found-safe-haven-in-america-9780897336277","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}